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It’s Official Radio Shack Offering Subsidized Acer Aspire One for $99 with Contract

Well that leaked advertisement was indeed the real deal and now it is official. Radio Shack is now offering the Acer Aspire One Netbook for $99, provided you’re willing to sign 2 years of your life away to AT&T for a data contract. That will hit your pocketbook for another $1500 over the life of the contract. Here’s a link to the official info with all the details.

So, who wants to bet on what will be the next subsidized Netbook to hit the streets?

Subsidized (AT&T) Acer Aspire One Coming to Radio Shack for $99?

Engadget is reporting that the Acer Aspire One might be the first carrier subsidized Netbook to hit the US. It looks like the carrier would be AT&T and it arrives via Radio Shack. The subsidized price is $99 (without the subsidy $499). Of course with the subsidy you’re on the hook for 2 years at least $60 a month. Here’s a pic of the ad Engadget is showing.

Acer Aspire One with XP at Best Buy for $299 Today

If you’re looking for a Netbook with XP as an OS, you might want to check out Best Buy’s Deal of the Day. jkOnTheRun posted the details, but bottom line is you can pick up the Acer Aspire One today for $299 running XP with 1GB of RAM. This is an online offer only.

Not a bad deal at all. Here’s the link.

Netbooks Dominate Amazon’s Cyber Monday Sale

And you wonder why Intel’s VP of Sales and Marketing Stu Pann is poo-pooing Netbooks. PCWorld is reporting that Netbooks dominated Amazon.com’s Cyber Monday sales in computers. The Asus 900HA took the top slot followed by the Acer Aspire One and it looks like folks opted for the 6-cell battery option across the board. No real surprise there.

Tips for MSI Wind 9-Cell Battery Owners

Global-Laptop-Batteries.com features a few excellent tips for customers that have purchased the 9-cell battery for the MSI Wind.  The  9-cell battery, rumored to get 8 hours+ of life, currently sells for US $79.80.  They’re also selling 6-cell Acer Aspire One batteries for US $68.60.  Check out their tips to get the most out of your battery:

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Acer Aspire One – Perfect for Children

I was around at a few different stores over the weekend and saw a few things that I didn’t expect to see (or at least know about).  One I didn’t know about was the Sony Reader being at Target for sale.  Not that it’s odd, I just haven’t seem them in a store.  There was also a NetBook there, the Asus Eee PC with a $349.99 price tag.  One that I took a picture of that really made an impression was at Wall-Mart.  They are selling the Acer Aspire One in the blue and white configuration.  The display was fully targeted at adults to make the purchase for their children.  The display is in the picture, but look at the wording - “Give your kids a fun and exciting way to experience the Internet” and “A child’s perfect first computer”.  Kind of an interesting ad campaign if you ask me!  But, IMO, this kind of eliminates a whole slew of people that might be a great fit for this platform.

Walt Mossberg Does Netbooks

Walt Mossberg takes on Netbooks in a review in the Wall Street Journal and essentially says what we’ve known all along. For some users (browsing, email, etc….) they work well and for power use look elsewhere. He takes a look at a decent cross section featuring four models: The Acer Aspire One, The Dell Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 1000H, and the MSI Wind and sees pluses and minuses with each of them. (Keyboards, trackpads, and battery life are key elements for him.) It is a pretty thorough review of each of these Netbooks, and from what I’m seeing from users around the web, Mossberg’s pluses and minuses stack up with most of hands on reports. Check out the full review here.

DIY Touch Screen for Acer Aspire One and Eee PC Now on eBay

You’ve got your Netbook and now you want touch, but you’re a bit too cautious to whip out a soldering iron. Well, this might do the trick for you if you have an Acer Aspire One or an Eee PC 900/901. It contains a 4-wire resistive touch panel with Mac, Linux, and Windows drivers and it will set you back $96 on eBay. No vouching for this here, but it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

So, anyone want to give this a try and let us know how well it does?

Via Engadget

Acer Aspire One Netbook on Woot! for $289

While Acer and Asus squabble over who will sell the most Netbooks, and the world watches the prices of Netbooks fall like the price of gasoline, you can take advantage of a Woot! deal today. The Acer Aspire One is on Woot! for $289.  Here are the specs:

• 1.6 GHz Atom N270 CPU
• 512MB of RAM
• 8GB SSD
• 1024×600 8.9" screen
• Linpus Lite (Linux) OS

Check out our InkShow on the Acer Aspire One.

Via UMPCPortal

Fight! Acer Says Aspire One Will Outship Asus Eee PC

Call it a war of words, or a war of claims, or just good old fashioned competition. Whatever you call it the Netbook wars are heating up. Acer says shipments of its Aspire One Netbook will outpace Asus and the vaunted Eee PC by about 1 million units. Asus is predicted 5 million units shipped and Acer is aiming for 6 million. I’m thinking this means Asus will release 10 more models in the next two weeks.

Via PCWorld

GBM InkShow: Thomasin and the Acer Aspire One

Well as I posted on Saturday I did pick up an Acer Aspire One Netbook or whatever you want to call them) at Circuit City, and I finally managed to convince my lovely wife, Thomasin, to take some time after her busy performance schedule this weekend to shoot an unboxing and first look InkShow, which we did last night.

Thomasin has been using the Asus Eee PC for quite some time and also checked out the HP Mini-Note so I thought she would be an excellent candidate to give the Aspire One a go. Besides her fresh look at these kind of devices are not only a treat, but reveal more than we have a geek look at them. She’ll be working with the Aspire One  this week and we’ll report back on how she feels it stacks up after that. But for now, enjoy this unboxing and first look, along with a few comparisons to the Asus Eee PC.

• Download the high res version of this GBM InkShow. (301MB, 39.33 Minutes)
• Check out the GBM InkShow review of the HP 2133 Mini-Note.
• Check out the GBM InkShow of Thomasin and the Asus Eee PC.